Digital Resources

The Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo (ALIM) contains, beyond obvious medieval authors, more than 40 works of the 14th and 15th centuries written by the authors usually classified as humanists. The texts can be browsed and downloaded in multiple formats, and the interface also enables various analytical tools: frequencies, comparisons, collocates, and concordances.

The Biblioteca Italiana contains more than 3,500 works of Italian literature (both in Italian and in Latin), ranging from the Middle Ages to Novecento. More than 1,000 authors, many of them Neo-Latinists, are included. The collection can be browsed through by authors, titles, periods, and genres. Full-text and advanced searches are also available, with the possibilities such as term exclusion and proximity search.

The Bibliotheca Latina: Latinitas Nova is the Neo-Latin section of the Intratext, containing the works of around 80 authors. There is a slight emphasis on ecclesiastical writings, many of them recent (20th and 21st centuries).

The CAMENA collection, built between 1999 and 2009 at the Chair for Modern German Literature of the German Studies Seminary, Heidelberg University, contains scans and (for the great part) machine readable Latin texts, mostly from early modern Germany, divided into five collections: THESAURUS ERUDITIONIS (encyclopedias and other reference works), POEMATA, HISTORICA ET POLITICA, CERA (Corpus Epistolicum Recentioris Aevi), and ITALI (a selection of Italian Renaissance works). In total, more than 230,000 printed pages are comprised.

In the lexicographical project TERMINI (Vernetzter Wortschatz lateinischer Wissensliteratur der Frühen Neuzeit), lemmas (including proper names) contained in the works of THESAURUS ERUDITIONIS are extracted and enriched with data from other sources of knowledge, in order to build a virtual encyclopedia of the early modern world.

The Corpus Corporum is a comprehensive database of Latin texts ranging from Antiquity to the Modern Era. The Corpus Corporum makes important corpora, such as Migne’s entire Patrologia Latina or the corpora from the Poeti d’Italia in lingua Latina project accessible, downloadable in the XML/TEI format and, most notable, searchable with a powerful search engine that also allows complex searches using a specific syntax.

Corpus Corporum also offers a useful reading environment through a large number of lexical resources linked to the lemmatized texts.

Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa) is a peer-reviewed, freely available scholarly digital collection of Latin texts by Croatian and other authors connected with people and region of today’s Croatia. Published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, the collection comprises works in the span from the 10th century until the present day. The included texts – counting about 5,000,000 words by almost 200 authors – are both literary and technical. It is possible to browse the collection or to do basic and advanced search, made possible by PhiloLogic architecture.

The Danish Neo-Latin Heritage Corpus, housed at The Centre for Danish Neo-Latin (CDNL), comprises Latin texts written by Danish authors or relating to Danish cultural history; at the moment (Dec. 2022) it has the texts of the major Danish historians (e.g. Pontanus, Meursius, Bering), as well as the complete works of the prolific Danish poet Erasmus Laetus, as well as other poetry and prose texts. The texts are in varying states of preparation, either uncorrected, partially or fully corrected, or lemmatized (incl. POS-tagging).

The Deutsche Inschriften Online (DIO) is the digital extension of the editorial project Die deutschen Inschriften des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, which, since 1934, publishes Latin and German inscriptions from Germany, Austria and South Tyrol created in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Within the DIO, the contents of the printed volumes are increasingly digitised in the form of a database searchable by inscription contents and metadata, in which entries are provided with a description, a translation, photo(s), a commentary and a list of references.

The Documenta Catholica Omnia aims at collecting all the documents of the Popes, Church Councils, Church Fathers, Doctors of the Church and other related authors from the apostolic age to the present time. Needless to say, a great number of the texts are Neo-Latin.

The collection Early Modern Latin Correspondence, hosted at The Latinum Institute, contains links to epistolary material by dozens of Neo-Latin authors and aims at providing texts that facilitate approach to Latin for early stages learners. A special section is dedicated to the instruction manuals for letter writing.

The Eurasian Latin Archive is dedicated to presenting Medieval and Early Modern Latin texts and documents concerning East Asia. Browsing by language reveals that 64 Neo-Latin texts are included. The system enables complex full-text searches and browsing.

In De Heinsius Collectie, hosted at the Leiden University, you will find a collection of Dutch Neo-Latin poems and prose texts. It is named after the learned poets Daniel Heinsius, librarian of Leiden University Library, and his son Nicolaas, a diplomat and philologist. Among other things, you will find the complete works of Caspar Barlaeus and Constantijn Huygens, numerous texts by Erasmus and Grotius in Dutch translation, the Latin texts of five books by J.P. Guépin, and a large number of references to Neo-Latin internet publications.

The Humanistica Helvetica is a bilingual French-German website dedicated to the Latin literature of the Swiss humanists. It contains a general introduction to Latin literature in Switzerland in the 16th century, a presentation of the different literary genres (epistolography, theatre, biography, lyric poetry, etc.) and studies on several specific themes (education, patriotism, mountains, etc.). The lives and works of six representative authors (including Conrad Gessner and Heinrich Glarean) are studied more extensively. In addition, there is a list of all Swiss humanists, with brief information on their life and work, as well as a list of bibliographic tools. Finally, the website contains an extensive database of Latin texts selected from the works of Swiss writers.

All the texts have been critically edited, translated into German and French, annotated, and are accompanied by the reproduction of their original manuscript or edition. Humanistica Helvetica is the result of a research project hosted by the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The Italian poetry in Latin: 13th–16th centuries collection contains, besides the medieval segment, Latin works of more than 260 Italian humanist poets. The search options include proximity search, as well as searches based on word-form or metre. The collection is now part of the MQDQ Galaxy, which also contains Musisque Deoque (a digital archive of ancient and early medieval Latin poetry) and Pedecerto (a tool for automatic analysis of dactylic verses).

Latinitas Tyrolensis: A Digital Collection (LatTy) is a searchable ane browsable collection of Neo-Latin texts on Tyrol. It was published by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies as part of the research project Croatica et Tyrolensia and contains works by more than 70 authors, spanning from 15th to 19th century.

Neolatina Sarmatica is a repository of critical editions of Latin texts created by authors associated with the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Res Publica Utriusque Nationis) consisting of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Royal Prussia, and Duchy of Prussia (Regnum Poloniae, Magnum Ducatum Lithuaniae, Prussia Regalis, et Prussia Ducalis).

The Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor) features Neo-Latin dramatic texts written and premiered across Europe from the 15th century onwards. NeoLatDraCor is part of the DraCor infrastructure.

DraCor – short for Drama Corpora – is a digital ecosystem dedicated to the study of drama from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 20th century. The multilingual community project follows the principles of open science. In May 2025, DraCor maintains 28 TEI-encoded drama corpora with a total of over 4,000 annotated full texts of plays in 22 languages. It is the basis for a very vibrant research landscape around the computational research of drama corpora. For more information and inspiration, see the DraCor research bibliography.

By incorporating Neo-Latin dramatic texts into the DraCor infrastructure, the NeoLatDraCor group aims to make the role of Neo-Latin drama in European theatre more visible and available for digital research.

NeoLatDraCor is a project based on an international collaboration of researchers working on Neo-Latin drama. The NeoLatDraCor group would be pleased to welcome more interested colleagues to their project. Moreover, they would be grateful if you helped them grow this corpus. For instance, you may encode dramatic texts in TEI yourself or with your students and publish them in NeoLatDraCor. If you are not familiar with TEI encoding, you may use their From Word to TEI Workflow; format your text in Word according to their guidelines, and your Word file will automatically be transformed into a TEI file. Visit the NeoLatDraCor Wiki to find out more.

The ERC funded project Nova Scientia: Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin (NOSCEMUS) at the University of Innsbruck houses two digital resources, the NOSCEMUS Wiki and the Digital Sourcebook.

The NOSCEMUS Wiki contains c. 1,000 entries. It presents a selection of early modern works on science written in Latin along with their authors and some secondary literature. This selection does not constitute an anthology, as works famous for their authors, their groundbreaking character or other reasons are neither included nor excluded in a systematic way. Rather, the collection is intended to be representative of Latin literature’s engagement with contemporary science in terms of chronological spread, literary forms and scientific disciplines.

Attached to the Wiki is the Digital Sourcebook. (Almost) all works for which there is an entry in the database are available in the Digital Sourcebook in full text as machine-readable and searchable text. The texts were recognized with Transkribus (HTR model “Noscemus GM”), but they were not fully proofread (dirty OCR).

The Opera Camerarii has taken its start from a thorough census of all texts ever produced by the German humanist and friend of Melanchthon’s, Joachim Camerarius the Elder (1500–1574). Based on Semantic MediaWiki, there is now a highly complex but easy-to-use documentation of more than 900 printed works from full-scale books to single distichs, giving information about Camerarius’ acquaintances, works and topics mentioned in his writings. In a second step called Camerarius digital, these are now processed through an OCR engine in order to provide a first-ever searchable full text. Moreover, a Camerarius-Lexikon is currently in the making, where central topics of Camerarius’ works, such as natural science, medicine, or philology are treated in depth, giving references to the writings themselves as well as to the general background of the era. Whilst the printed part of Camerarius’ correspondence (about 2,200 letters) has been analyzed and summarized in depth as well, it is hoped that the remaining further 2,000, which are only preserved in their handwritten originals, may be added at a later date.

The Poesis Latina Hodierna (available as a page in English as well) hosts the works written by around 40 latin poets of the 20th and the 21th centuries. It contains links to other similar material and to some useful related resources.

The Latinske Tekster section of the Renaessancesprog i Danmark collection contains digitised searchable Latin works of around 80 Danish autors from the 16th and 17th centuries. Another part of the collection is the Ordbøger section, conteaining eight dictionaries involving Latin or Latin and Danish, published in the period between 1510 and 1626.

Apart from its ancient and medieval parts, The Neo-Latin section of The Latin Library provides texts by 70 post-medieval Latin authors.

The Tirolensia Latina is a collection of several dozens of early modern Latin texts from Tyrol (1510-1888), within the Austrian Literature Online portal.